The liberals in and around the Democratic Party of the US loved WikiLeaks when it was exposing the crimes of the Republicans in the Iraq and Afghan wars. It was in those days that liberal Democrats like Chicago actor John Cusack eagerly helped organize the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FotPF) when PayPal and US … Continue reading →

Ah the joys of life on the Internets here in the “Land Of The Free(TM)”! You may have noticed that our Twitter account is sitting dead in the water since last night (27 July 2017). That is because it has been locked by Twitter, apparently at the behest of a bunch of Twitter creeps … Continue reading →

The infamous, long-running judicial frame-up of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by Swedish Prosecutor Marianne Ny collapsed today as she announced in a Swedish courtroom that she was rescinding both of the outstanding arrest warrants for Julian Assange. Assange has been forced to seek political asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for the past 7 … Continue reading →

In a live-streamed interview and Q&A session on the “Periscope” website Monday (9 Jan 2017), Julian Assange of WikiLeaks charged the Obama Administration was in the process of committing “crimes against humanity” by rushing to destroy the most politically sensitive documents in US Government archives before Donald Trump takes office. “Past administrations of both the … Continue reading →

During the 2016 US Presidential Election, the candidates of the twin parties owned and operated by the US capitalist class – the Republicans and the Democrats – began a campaign of lies and disinformation about what they charged was intolerable Russian intervention in the US electoral process. The Russians, they alleged, were responsible for the … Continue reading →

[We reprint below a statement by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in regard to the unprincipled and unjustified attacks levied against WikiLeaks for publishing emails from Hillary Clinton’s (former) campaign chairman John Podesta and others. It was originally published on the WikiLeaks website on 8 November 2016. – FoWL Chicago] Assange Statement on the US Election … Continue reading →

Today, June 19, marks the 4th year that the heroic WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been kept a prisoner in the Ecuadorean embassy in London thanks to the connivance of the US and UK governments, using their puppet government of Sweden as the legal “justification” for his illegal and totally unwarranted incarceration. We say: US/UK: … Continue reading →

[Note: this review is being simultaneously published by the Independent Workers Party of Chicago and the Friends of WikiLeaks – Chicago on the respective websites of both groups.] CITIZENFOUR – a film by Laura Poitras https://citizenfourfilm.com/ We expected a lot from Laura Poitras’ new film CITIZENFOUR; we were massively disappointed. With ex- CIA/NSA contract worker … Continue reading →